Hello MyungJoo Ham, The patch bd6ca2cf50fb: "regulator: MAX8997/8966 support" from Mar 11, 2011, leads to the following static checker warning: drivers/regulator/max8997-regulator.c:435 max8997_set_voltage_charger_cv() warn: dead code because of 'max_uV >= 4000000' and 'max_uV < 4000000' drivers/regulator/max8997-regulator.c 411 static int max8997_set_voltage_charger_cv(struct regulator_dev *rdev, 412 int min_uV, int max_uV, unsigned *selector) 413 { 414 struct max8997_data *max8997 = rdev_get_drvdata(rdev); 415 struct i2c_client *i2c = max8997->iodev->i2c; 416 int rid = rdev_get_id(rdev); 417 int lb, ub; 418 int reg, shift = 0, mask, ret = 0; 419 u8 val = 0x0; 420 421 if (rid != MAX8997_CHARGER_CV) 422 return -EINVAL; 423 424 ret = max8997_get_voltage_register(rdev, ®, &shift, &mask); 425 if (ret) 426 return ret; 427 428 if (max_uV < 4000000 || min_uV > 4350000) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ We know that max_uV >= 4000000 because of this check. 429 return -EINVAL; 430 431 if (min_uV <= 4000000) { 432 if (max_uV >= 4000000) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ So this check is redundent, we will always return -EINVAL here. 433 return -EINVAL; 434 else 435 val = 0x1; ^^^^^^^^^ Dead code. 436 } else if (min_uV <= 4200000 && max_uV >= 4200000) 437 val = 0x0; 438 else { 439 lb = (min_uV - 4000001) / 20000 + 2; 440 ub = (max_uV - 4000000) / 20000 + 1; 441 442 if (lb > ub) 443 return -EINVAL; 444 445 if (lb < 0xf) 446 val = lb; 447 else { 448 if (ub >= 0xf) 449 val = 0xf; 450 else 451 return -EINVAL; 452 } 453 } regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html